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Multimode precoding, where the number of independent data-streams is adapted optimally, can be used to maximize the achievable throughput in multi-antenna communication systems. Motivated by standardization efforts embraced by the industry,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Vasanthan Raghavan , Venu Veeravalli , Akbar Sayeed

Future wireless connectivity is envisioned to accommodate functionalities far beyond broadband data transmission over point-to-point direct links, enabling novel scenarios, such as communication behind blockers and around corners, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Sotiris Droulias , Giorgos Stratidakis , Angeliki Alexiou

We consider the downlink of a cellular system in which the base station employs multiple transmit antennas, each receiver has a single antenna, and the users specify. We consider communication schemes in which the users have certain Quality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-12 Michael Botros Shenouda , Timothy N. Davidson

Millimeter wave (mmWave) signals experience orders-of-magnitude more pathloss than the microwave signals currently used in most wireless applications. MmWave systems must therefore leverage large antenna arrays, made possible by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Omar El Ayach , Sridhar Rajagopal , Shadi Abu-Surra , Zhouyue Pi , Robert W. Heath

As a key enabling technology for 5G wireless, millimeter wave (mmWave) communication motivates the utilization of large-scale antenna arrays for achieving highly directional beamforming. However, the high cost and power consumption of RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Qingjiang Shi , Mingyi Hong

It has been well known that the achievable rate of multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems with limited feedback is severely degraded by quantization errors when the number of feedback bits is not sufficient. To overcome such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Wentao Zhou , Di Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Inkyu Lee

With the goal of improving spectral efficiency, complex rotation-based precoding and power allocation schemes are developed for two multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, namely, simultaneous wireless information and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xinliang Zhang , Mojtaba Vaezi

In mixed near-field and far-field systems, the nonorthogonality between near-field and far-field channels may cause severe inter-user interference and hence degrade rate performance, when the analog beamforming is designed based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Chao Zhou , Mingjiang Wu , Ming-Min Zhao , Zhaocheng Wang

This paper proposes a multi-user Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) near-field access scheme, inspired by the orthogonal characteristics of multi-mode vortex waves. A Reconfigurable Meta-surface (RM) is ingeniously employed as the gateway…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Yufei Zhao , Qihao Lv , Yuanbin Chen , Afkar Mohamed Ismail , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen

The resolution is an important performance metric of near-field communication networks. In particular, the resolution of near field beamforming measures how effectively users can be distinguished in the distance-angle domain, which is one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Chenguang Rao , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre , Xuchu Dai

The next generation of wireless communications systems will employ new frequency bands such as those in the upper midband, millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz frequency bands. The high energy consumption of analog-to-digital converters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 D. Melo , L. Landau , R. de Lamare

The multi-user Holographic Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Surface (MU-HMIMOS) paradigm, which is capable of realizing large continuous apertures with minimal power consumption, has been recently considered as an energyefficient solution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Wei E. I. Sha , Zhaoyang Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

This paper tackles the problem of the simultaneous interference among the multiple users in the downlink of a wireless multiantenna system. In order to exploit the multiuser interference and transform it into useful power at the receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Maha Alodeh , Björn Ottersten

Large antenna arrays and high-frequency bands are two key features of future wireless communication systems. The combination of large-scale antennas with high transmission frequencies often results in the communicating devices operating in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar

The multi-user Holographic Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Surface (MU-HMIMOS) paradigm, which is capable of realizing large continuous apertures with minimal power consumption and of shaping radio wave propagation at will, has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Wei E. I. Sha , Zhaoyang Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Consider the following problem: A multi-antenna base station (BS) sends multiple symbol streams to multiple single-antenna users via precoding. However, unlike conventional multiuser precoding, the transmitted signals are subjected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Mingjie Shao , Qiang Li , Wing-Kin Ma , Anthony Man-Cho So

This paper studies a downlink multiuser transmit beamforming design under spherical channel uncertainties, using a worst-case robust formulation. This robust design problem is nonconvex. Recently, a convex approximation formulation based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tsung-Hui Chang , Wing-Kin Ma , Chong-Yung Chi

A major source of difficulty when operating with large arrays at mmWave frequencies is to estimate the wideband channel, since the use of hybrid architectures acts as a compression stage for the received signal. Moreover, the channel has to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Javier Rodriguez-Fernandez , Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic , Takayuki Shimizu

In millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO systems, while a hybrid digital/analog precoding structure offers the potential to increase the achievable rate, it also faces the challenge of the need of a low-complexity design. In specific, the hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Zhenyu Xiao , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

Hybrid analog/digital precoding offers a compromise between hardware complexity and system performance in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. This type of precoding allows mmWave systems to leverage large antenna array gains that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath